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Credits

 
Museums to Discover

Produced by the Société des musées québécois (SMQ)
and espace courbe

Production of Museums to Discover Website (2002)

SMQ production team

  • Linda Lapointe: Project and Production Manager
  • Marie Lepage: Co-producer (Les collections s'animent et Réserve virtuelle)
  • Marie-Thérèse Bournival: Co-producer (Museum Directory and Thematic Routes)
  • France Desmarais: Data co-ordination and management (Base de données Info-Muse et Réserve virtuelle)
  • Christine Leroy: Research, management and co-ordination of data collection and entry (Museum Directory and Calendrier des expositions)
  • Jean-Pierre Leroux: French revision
  • Terry Knowles and Pamela Ireland: English translation
  • Gilles Lessard: Co-ordination and management of user licences (copyright)
  • Céline Mayrand: Management of user licences (copyright)
  • Isa Mailloux: Data standardization (Base de données Info-Muse et Réserve virtuelle)
  • Odile Wallon: Data entry (Museum Directory and Calendrier des expositions)
  • Julie Lévesque: Research, organization and data entry (Réserve virtuelle)
  • Louis-Philippe Côté: Support for data organization and entry
  • Marie-Ève Charron: Support for data organization and entry
    Data and image standardization and digitization project:
  • Françoise Simard: Manager, Info-Muse Network
  • France Desmarais: Advisor, Computerization of Collections
  • Madeleine Lafaille: Advisor, Computerization of Collections
  • Jean-François Royal: Consultant - Data Standardization

Supervision - SMQ
Michel Perron: Executive Director, SMQ


Espace Courbe production team
(Technical, multimedia and graphic design)

  • Benoit Dubuc: Director of Production and Project Manager
  • Lenka Vernex: Artistic Director
  • Juan Stéphan: Computer graphic artist and integrator
  • Karl Desjardins: Flash programmer
  • Sylvain Viart: Network administrator, PHP and dHTML programmer
  • Geoffroy O’Donoughue: Perl, XML programmer
  • Patrick Turmel: Perl, XML programmer
  • Maxime Gaudreau: PHP, XML programmer
  • Frédéric Gagné: Flash programmer
  • Jean Lavoie: Integrator
  • Dominique Arpin: Network administrator

www.espacecourbe.com

With the collaboration of the Bertuch graphic agency, for the multimedia and graphic design of five animated tables: Univers contemporain, Prêt-à-porter, Scènes d'intérieur, Témoins de la culture amérindienne, Nature en collections

www.bertuch.qc.ca

Sound production: Sono design

  • Diane Leboeuf: Sound design and co-ordination
  • Gaétan Leboeuf: Sound design, composition and musical arrangements
  • Leila Copti: Music research

www.sono-design.com


SMQ Management Committee

  • Carl Johnson: President of the Société des musées québécois
  • Hélène Pagé: Ex-officio President
  • Michel Perron: Executive Director, SMQ
  • Linda Lapointe: Project Manager, SMQ
  • Bernard Daoust: Head of the Communications Department
  • Claude Valade: Canada Economic Development
  • Richard Godbout: Ministère de la Culture et des Communications
  • Jacques Lagacé: Télé-Québec
  • Carole Bégin: Télé-Québec


Production Partner

Télé-Québec: Co-production of the Zone scolaire, site hosting and co-operation on the promotional campaign.

www.telequebec.qc.ca


Financial support

Museums to Discover was produced with the financial support of the following partners:

  • Ministère de la Culture et des Communications, mainly through the
    Fonds de l'autoroute de l'information.
  • Canada Economic Development

Acknowledgements

First of all, we wish to thank all the professionals at the participating Quebec museums, without whose help this project could never have been completed.

Our sincere thanks to the artists and agents who allowed us to post copyrighted works on the site.

We also wish to thank the following individuals:

Scientific validation (classification of collections in the Réserve virtuelle):

  • Art: Michel Perron, Société des musées québécois
  • Euro-Quebec ethnology: Paul-Aimé Lacroix, Parks Canada
  • Native Indian ethnology: Louise Siméon, Mashteuiatsh Amerindian Museum
  • Inuit ethnology: Marie-Paule Robitaille, Musée de la civilisation
  • Archaeology: Louise Pothier and Suzanne Lachance, Pointe-à-Callière, Montréal Museum of Archaeology and History
  • Botany: Alain Cuerrier, Institut de recherche en biologie végétale, Montréal Botanical Garden, and Luc Brouillet, Herbier Marie-Victorin
  • Entomology: André Payette, Montréal Insectarium
  • Zoology: Marcel Parent, Montréal Biodôme
  • Geology and paleontology: Serge Gaudart, Musée minéralogique et
    minier de Thetford Mines

And the following organizations, for their assistance:

The Société des musées québécois also thanks all the other individuals who contributed to this project:

Céline Arsenault, Suzanne Bernier, Andrée Blais, Jean-Guy Brossard, Jacqueline Caron, Stéphane Chagnon, Denis Chartrand, Richard Dubé, Serge Dubuc, Hélène Gagnon, Johanne Gaudet, Monique Gauthier, Pauline Hamel, Michel Huard, Lise Lambert, Ginette Lebel, Nicole Lemay, Raymond Montpetit, Michel Nadeau, Brigitte Ricard, Danièle Rompré, Jean-François Royal, Denise St-Jean, Michelle Sincennes, Alain Vandal, Anne-Marie Zeppetelli.

And the entire Société des musées québécois team.

Development and Site Maintenance

Espace Courbe production team
(Technical support, Web development, multimedia and graphic design)

  • Benoit Dubuc: Director of Production
  • Juan Stéphan: Computer graphic artist and integrator
  • Patrick Turmel: Team leader - Web Development
  • Stéphane Franic: Web programmer and Network administrator
  • Christian Fecteau: Web programmer for stylesheets and JavaScript
        


    
   
    

 


 
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